[cctalk] Re: on the origin of home computers

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:37 PM, <dave.g4...@gmail.com> <dave.g4...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> ...
> Computer Games are almost as old as (Turing Complete) Computers. Alan Turing
> insisted that the Manchester/Ferranti MK1 had a Random Number generator.
> Christopher Strachey wrote a tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses to the
> English) program which displayed its output in patterns on the MK1 screen.
> In 1951 he wrote a checkers/draughts program for the Mk1.
> He also wrote the "love letters" program.....

Along those lines, I was amused to see a letter to the editor a few days ago 
about ChatGPT, which pointed out that it's basically an overgrown version of 
the famous ELIZA program from the 1960s.

        paul